Primed with 1966’s introduction of Psychedelic Sounds ushered in by The Yardbirds’ Shapes of Things and Over, Under, Sideways, Down, Donovan’s Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow, The Stones’ Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby? and Paint It Black, Bob Lind’s Elusive Butterfly (Of Love), The Count 5’s Psychotic Reaction, Love’s 7 and 7 is, and Brian Wilson’s Beach Boys’ Psychedelic Masterpiece Good Vibrations; 1967 was destined to become the historic Psychedelic year for Heads and Music Lovers everywhere.

Just as amazing was the creative explosion in art that blended the past and the future into bold and extreme designs that were found in nearly every form of media and mediums. Psychedelia was hip, fun, and the visual and audio cosmic jolt that society needed, and received. Far Out!

Let’s Rock:

February 1: Jefferson Airplane release“Surrealistic Pillow“the monumental landmark album that verified the beginning of the Height of Psychedelic Culture. Nothing says Psychedelic more than White Rabbit. Eternal thanks to Grace.

February 1: The federal minimum wage in the United States increased from $1.25 an hour to $1.40 an hour.
However, Cost of a new home: $24,600.00, Cost of a new car: $2,750.00, Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.33, Median Household Income: $7,143.00, Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05, Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.49, a gallon of Milk: $1.03.

February 10: The Beatles record “A Day in the Life” with the London Philharmonic Orchestra performing an “orgasm of noise” with Michael Nesmith of the Monkees in attendance.

February 12:Keith Richards‘ home is raided by police – no arrests were made at the time, but Richards, Mick Jagger and art dealer Robert Fraser would subsequently be arrested and convicted of possession of drugs. On June 29, Richards would be sentenced to one year in prison, and Jagger to three months. Newspaper headlines; “Nude Girl At Stones Party” were meant as lurid sensationalism of an alleged “nude Marianne Faithful on a rug with a candy bar scenario”, and was printed in hopes of further demonizing The Rolling Stones and Rock ‘n’ Roll. But it didn’t work; both Jagger and Richards’ convictions were overturned. Fraser pleaded guilty on charges of possession of heroin and was sentenced to six months hard labor.

February 13: The Beatles released the songs “Penny Lane” and “Strawberry Fields Forever” on the same 45 rpm record as a “double A-sided” single in the United States, with a release in the UK four days later.

February 18: New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison announced at a press conference that he believed that the assassination of John F. Kennedy had been a conspiracy. As this claim gathered credibility, it would ignite the distrust of the Government, the media, the CIA, the FBI, NASA, and to all authority establishments – and serve as the trigger for the birth of the “Conspiracy Theory Era”, which is currently stronger than ever.

February 21: 00individual turns 16! For his 16th birthday he soon acquired a car that celebrated its 16th birthday also – a 1951 Buick! The car was $33.00, but new transmision seals were needed for $66.00 – so for $99.00 and 33 cents a gallon for gas 00individual and his two-door Buick Super Dynaflow were mobile and good to go.Although he had been inconspicuous while driving cars since he was 14, he was now legal, and a car meant independence, the ability to expand his territory at will, and a place to get high, and to have fantastic back-seat sex on a regular basis.
This Buick behemoth had a straight eight under the hood and a roomy, private, luxurious back-seat —->
better than some bedrooms! Groovy!

February 22: David Ferrie, 48, was found dead in his New Orleans home only four days after Jim Garrison had announced his plans to indict alleged conspirators in the John F. Kennedy assassination. Ferrie had been a flying service operator who had been accused by Garrison of being a “get-away pilot” for participants. United Press International noted at the time that Ferrie was “at least the 14th person to die who had something to do, directly, indirectly, or by the slightest of connections, with the assassination of President Kennedy and its aftermath” in the 39 months since November 22, 1963. And so it begins . . .

OK, Cosmic Kids, 1967’s Psychedelic Train is on the move, pickin’ up steam and headin’
for ten more monthly Psychedelic stops and psyide-trips on the way throughHistoric Psychedelic 1967!

“Psychedelic Train” copyright 2017 00individual TLL

Please keep all extremities, real or imagined,
inside open windows while the train is in motion!

Next stop – March 1967!

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*The Firebird wasn’t the real first muscle car. The real war started in 1962 when the big three started the factory sponsorship of NASCAR. Chevy with the 409, Ford with the 427, and Chrysler with the 413 engines, even though they were in full sized cars. The real era started when GM put the 389 with tri-power (3 2-barrel carbs) in a 1964 Pontiac Tempest and called it a GTO. The big 3 went crazy until the gas crisis of 1971. – Detailed info courtesy of Monster Mike

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